WASHINGTON -- When one of Osama bin Laden's most trusted aides picked up the phone last year, he unknowingly led U.S. pursuers to the doorstep of his boss, the world's most wanted terrorist.

That phone call, recounted Monday by a U.S. official, ended a years-long search for bin Laden's personal courier, the key break in a worldwide manhunt. The courier, in turn, led U.S. intelligence to a walled compound in northeast Pakistan, where a team of Navy SEALs shot bin Laden to death.

The violent final minutes were the culmination of years of intelligence work. Inside the CIA team hunting bin Laden, it always was clear that bin Laden's vulnerability was his couriers. He was too smart to let al-Qaida foot soldiers, or even his senior commanders, know his hideout. But if he wanted to get his messages out, somebody had to carry them, someone bin Laden trusted with his life.

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The "so-called" politicians as we know them, plus the 'wannabe" news media radicals are stomping up and down trying to get the President to show the Osama bin Laden death photo's. I must say, who is this crazy world would want to see a dead man with half his head blown away?

I have a solution for all this...Yes, Obama take this hint. Gather the photos as you see fit, place them in a locked glass case. Invite all the Senators, Congressmen, plus these nosy news honchos to this undisclosed site. Have these "gawkies" remove all their secret recording devices, and that would include all cameras, ipissphones, etc.

Now, make each person that like to see a dead corpse march right pass the glass case with the photos, and have them to repeat...this is one dead SOB Osama bin Laden.

There you have it. These Senators, Congressmen, and news hounds can go back to their microphones and announce to the world....Osama bin Laden is dead. Case closed.

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Do you remember the supposed autopsy photos of JFK that were supposedly "leaked" to the news media and all the furor they caused? I agree with the decision not to release photos of a dead OBL...he's dead and gone...and good riddance to bad rubbish. We don't need to contribute to attempts to make a martyr of him. I read yesterday that the "birthers" are now going to become the "deathers" because they're not going to want to believe that the uppity black man actually succeeded where their little Napoleon wannabe did not!

Here are a few pics from Bush's photo album...

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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."Honore de Balzac

"Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it."~Harry S. Truman